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1. Characteristics of illness intrusions in a non-clinical sample

Author

Langlois, Frederic, Ladouceur, Robert, Patrick, Gosselin, and Freeston, Mark H.

Subjects
Anxiety -- Research, Adjustment (Psychology) -- Research, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

This study examines whether illness intrusions can be distinguished from obsessional intrusions and worries. It also assesses the relationship between strategies, thought characteristics, and appraisal of illness intrusions. Two hundred and forty-three non-clinical participants identified an obsessive intrusive thought, a worry, and an illness intrusion. They evaluated each thought using items from the Cognitive Intrusions Questionnaire. The comparisons of intrusions showed that illness intrusions share characteristics of worries and obsessional intrusions, but also have their own characteristics. Illness intrusions seem to be particularly egosyntonic. The relationships between the strategies used to counter illness intrusions and their appraisal were also tested. Results support the idea that there are specific links between the evaluation of cognitive intrusions and the way they are processed. It demonstrated that escape/avoidance strategies are associated with the egodystonic nature of the thought and that problem-focused strategies are associated with the thought's basis in reality. Illness intrusions may be conceptualised as either obsessions or worries. This study demonstrated that the category of an intrusive thought might not be as important as the way it is processed. It seems more important to consider appraisal of the disturbing thought and the way in which the person subsequently reacts and behaves. Keywords: Anxiety; Obsession; Worry; Thought disturbances; Coping-behavior

Published
2004

2. Experimental manipulation of intolerance of uncertainty: a study of a theoretical model of worry

Author

Robert Ladouceur, Michel J. Dugas, and Patrick Gosselin

Subjects
Adult, Male, Generalized anxiety disorder, Adolescent, media_common.quotation_subject, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Anxiety, Models, Psychological, Developmental psychology, Cognition, medicine, Humans, Temperament, Probability, media_common, medicine.disease, Anxiety Disorders, Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology, Gambling, Female, medicine.symptom, Worry, Psychology
Abstract

Intolerance of uncertainty has been identified as an important variable related to worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) [Dugas, M. J., Gagnon, F., Ladouceur, R., & Freeston, M. H. (1998). Generalized anxiety disorder: a preliminary test of a conceptual model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36, 215-226; Ladouceur, R., Dugas, M. J., Freeston, M. H., Rheaume, J., Blais, F., Boisvert, J.-M., Gagnon, F., & Thibodeau, N. (1999). Specificity of Generalized Anxiety Disorder symptoms and processes. Behavior Therapy, 30, 197-207]. The goal of the present study was to clarify the relationship between this cognitive process and worry by experimentally manipulating intolerance of uncertainty. A gambling procedure was used to increase intolerance of uncertainty in one group (N = 21) and to decrease intolerance of uncertainty in another group (N = 21). The results indicate that participants whose level of intolerance of uncertainty was increased showed a higher level of worry, compared to participants whose level of intolerance of uncertainty was decreased. These results provide some initial clarifications as to the causal nature of the link between intolerance of uncertainty and worry. These results are coherent with our theoretical model of worry and GAD (Dugas et al., 1998), which stipulates that intolerance of uncertainty plays a key role in the acquisition and maintenance of excessive worry.

Published
2000

3. Cognitive variables related to worry among adolescents: avoidance strategies and faulty beliefs about worry

Author

Dominique Lemay, Robert Ladouceur, Mark H. Freeston, Patrick Gosselin, Myriam Laberge, and Frédéric Langlois

Subjects
Adult, Male, ComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTERSYSTEMIMPLEMENTATION, Adolescent, Psychometrics, media_common.quotation_subject, Psychology, Adolescent, ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Anxiety, GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS, Developmental psychology, Cognitive variables, Cognition, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Avoidance Learning, Humans, Child, media_common, Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology, Attitude, Cognitive avoidance, ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY, Female, Worry, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Stress, Psychological
Abstract

Studies aiming to better understand worry have neglected children and adolescents. This constitutes an important limitation considering that excessive worry is frequent among adolescents and that patients suffering from excessive worries associate the beginning of their disorder with adolescence. This study evaluates the cognitive variables associated with worry in a sample of 777 adolescents. It attempts to determine whether cognitive avoidance and false beliefs about the usefulness of worries are present and associated with worries in adolescence. The results showed that participants with a high level of worry used more avoidance strategies and held more beliefs about worry. The results also revealed that avoidance of stimuli that trigger unpleasant thoughts and thought substitution were the major avoidance strategies related to worry among adolescents. The belief that worry helps to avoid future negative events was also related to worry. These findings may suggest that adolescents' worries are maintained by processes similar to those observed among adults.

Published
2003

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